Game apparatus.



PATENTED MAR. 31

J. M. BABBITT & A. 0 RUMPEL.

GAME APPARATUS. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 10. 1902...

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. BABBITT, OF RENSSELAER, MISSOURI, AND ANTON O. RUMPEL, OF

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

GAME APP RATUS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 723,807, dated March 31, 1903.

Application filedJnly 10,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J 015m M. BABBITT, a resident of Rensselaeigin the county of Balls and State of Missouri, and ANTON O. RUM- PEL, a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, citi- Zens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention has for its object to provide for the playing of an indefinite variety of games with disks, balls, or rings, and possibly other devices in accordance'with arbitrary rules which have been or may be formulated on a preferably portable and pivotally-adjnstable field -base, said invention consisting in the game apparatus hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a plan View of game apparatus in accordance with our invention, the view being made to show various features of the apparatus without reference to any particular game; Fig. 2, a sectional view of said apparatus, indicated by lines 2 2 in the first figure; Fig. 3, a perspective View of a detachable guard-rail section of the apparatus, and Fig. 4: a similar view of one of a series of pockets attachable to the guard-rail at intervals of the same adjacent to openings that result from displacement of detachable sections.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a portable field-base, preferably of wood or other suitable light material, and it may be held on the laps of game-players or otherwise supported. The field-base is preferably of angular contour, having rounded corners, and it is bounded by permanent sections Band detachable sections B of a guard-v 1902. SerialNo. 115,025. (NomodeLl bag D, of netting or other suitable material, being suspended from each frame. Each frame and bag therewith forms a pocket adjacent to and outside a passage that results from the removal of a detachable guard-rail section.

The field-base is marked with lines d to dicate a square out of center with said ba but having its bounds parallel to the guardrail, there being preferably circular spaces 6 in the form of indentations or otherwise in the aforesaid base cutting corners of said square. Lines f are marked on the field-base touching lines d to bound spaces concentric 5 to the ones 6 outside two diametrically opposite corners of the square, and another line g is marked on said base as a boundary of a space withinone of said corners of said square, this inner corner-space being bisected 7 by a line 71, central of the aforesaid square. Curve lines-i j are marked on the field-base back of the inner terminus of line h, between it and the corner of the aforesaid square far? thest from the bisected space. Other curved lines k are shown on the field-base touching lines d and marking bounds of outside spaces immediately adjacent to the other diametrically opposite corners of the square above specified. Lines m marked on the field-base indicate limits between lines d and the guard,- rail adjacent to the bisected corner-space, and other lines n are also marked on said field-base to indicate limits between lines (1 and the guard-rail back of the indicated 5 space concentric with the corner-cutting space or indentation farthest from said bi-' sected corner-space. A space at the intersection of limit-lines n is bounded by a curve line p, and other curved lines q bound spaces 9 outside of said limit-lines 71, each of the latter spaces being in position to be crossed by an imaginary central line of the field,

The lay-out of the field-base as thus far described is fora particular game or games in 9F accordance with arbitrary rules to be played by disks shot about by snapping with the end of a finger from the thumb of a hand of each player, the pockets aforesaid beingclosed or open, according to the rules of the particular game.

A central pocketr is provided in the fieldbase, and other sockets s, equidistant from the center, mark corners of asquare. Other sockets t mark corners of parallellograms diagonally of the field-base distant from the corners of the square that is indicated by sockets s, and parallel to the guard rail in every direction of the same inside the limitlines aforesaid are rows of sockets to on lines 22, marking bounds of a square outside the one marked by lines cl aforesaid.

The sock et-s are for the en gagement-of posts E, that are variously arranged accordingto games under arbitrary rules to be played by the shooting about of balls or disks or the tossing of rings or by manipulation of other devices, the guard'rail being continuous or open at intervals to the pockets and the indentations e in the field-base closed by flush stoppers F or left open, according to the requirements of any particular game elected to be played.

A net or nets maybe stretched between posts in field-base sockets for service in the well-known game of ping-pong or games simulating the same.

The field-base is shown provided with a depending center pivot stud G, engaging a socket in a supportingblock II, that may be provided with legs or rest on any convenient support, said field-base being then pivotally adjustable to facilitate the playing of some games.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Game apparatus comprising a field-base bounded by a guard-rail and marked to indicate a square out of center with the field but having its bounds parallel to the guard-rail, spaces one within another at two diametrically opposite corners of the square, the inner spaces cutting these corners and the outer spaces terminating on adjacent bounds of said square; a space within the square at one of said corners, limits parallel to bounds of the square adjacent to the corner-space therein, a line central of the square bisecting said corner-space within the same, lines at inter vals back of the inner terminus of the former line, spaces immediately outside the square adjacent to the other diametrically opposite corners of same, limits parallel to bounds of the square back of the indicated spaces at the corner of said square farthest from its bisected inner corner-space, a space at the intersection of the latter limits, and other spaces outside of each of said latter limits crossed by imaginary lines central of the field.

2. Game apparatus comprising a field-base bounded by a guardrail and having spaces in the form of indentations cutting corners of a square lined thereon out of center therewith to have its bounds parallel to the guardrail, lines bounding spaces partly inclosing the indented spaces outside the square at two diametrically opposite corners of the same, a line inside the square connecting right-angle bounds of same adjacent to one of said corners, lines marking limits parallel to said right-angle bounds of the square, a line central of the square bisectiug the indicated inner corner-space of same, lines at intervals back of the innerterminus of the line bisecting said corner-space in the square, lines marking spaces immediately outside the square adjacent to the other diametrically opposite corners of same, lines marking limits parallel to bounds of the square back of the indicated space adjacent to the indentation farthest from the bisected-inner corn er-space of said square, a curve line joining the latter limit-lines, and another curve line bounding space outside of each of said latter limit-lines where the same crosses an imaginary line central of the field.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN M. BABBITT. ANTON O. RUMPEL. Witnesses:

FERD. G. DIEZ, OsoAa ALTPETER. 

